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The Art of Angling, Or, Complete Fly & Bottom-Fisher; Describing the Different Kinds of Fish, Their Haunts, Places of Feeding, &C. &C. Also, Observations on the Breeding of Carp and the Regulating of Pools and Ponds, with Directions for Making Arti

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1814. Excerpt: ... are suddenly generated by the sun's heat, within a cloud of watery vapours, gathered together of the same nature. LAMPREY, Or LAMPRON. The Lamprey is a fish that affords the angler no sport, refusing all sorts of baits; but are taken in wheels or baskets, made of twigs, fixed al the bottom of the water for that purpose. They are much like Eels, slippery and blackish, but beneath on their bellies somewhat blue; on each side of their throats have seven holes, at which they receive in, and let out fresh water, having no gills. They are about two feet and a half in length. Their flesh is sweet, good, and yieldeth much nourishment. There are great plenty of them in the river Severn, in Worcestershire. They are best in season in March and April, being then fattest and sweetest; in summer they are harder aud leaner; and the inner nerve, or string, (given them instead of a back-bone) is then grown hard. FISH-PONDS And STEWS. Directions for choosing the best Situations-and an improved Method for laying them out. It is allowed by the most experienced anglers, and breeders of fish, that those grounds are best for these purposes which are full of springs, and apt to be moorish. The one breeds them well, and the other preserves them from being stolen. The situation of the pond is also to be considered, and the nature of the currents that fall into it; likewise that it be refreshed with a little brook, or with rain water that falls from the adjacent hilly ground; and that those ponds which receive the stale and dung of horses, breed the largest and fattest tub. In making the pond, observe that the head be at the lowest part of the ground; and that the trench of the flood-gate or sluice have a good swift fall that it may not be long in emptying. If the pond carry six fe...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217514255
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 28
  • Spine Width: 2 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217514251
  • Publisher Date: 01 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 68 gr


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